Key takeaways
- Scaling quantum computers to thousands of qubits is bottlenecked less by the qubits themselves and more by the control electronics needed to drive and read them out.
- Qubit crosstalk becomes a harder engineering problem as systems grow, forcing tighter integration between control hardware and calibration software.
- The Netherlands has built a dense quantum ecosystem of hardware startups, research institutes, and suppliers that makes it easier to build a company like Qblox there.
- Control system design choices made early on have long term consequences for how easily a quantum computer can be scaled later.
Summary
Niels Bultink, founder and CEO of Qblox, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Niels and Yuval talk about quantum control of qubits, scaling up to thousands of qubits, qubit crosstalk, the Dutch quantum ecosystem and much more.